Willard van Orman Quine Quotes on Logic

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  1. Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.

  2. To be is to be the value of a bound variable.

    #2 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

  3. The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.'

  4. Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

  5. 'Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation' yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

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